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Copyright 2003.

Revised edition Copyright 2011 Cascadia Publishing House

Copyright 2011 Cascadia Publishing House

In AD 57 or 58, the apostle Paul sent his faithful co-worker and patron Phoebe on an 800 mile journey to deliver a letter to all the Christians in Rome. Today we have Paul's letter but know little about its historical context. Yet similar tensions still trouble churches. Finger claims we cannot understand Romans for our day unless we grasp its original setting. She guides users of the book to re-create house churches as in first-century Rome.

Copyright 1993

Sunday school teachers, Bible study leaders, and other persons interested in careful Bible study will find the explanatory essays for each section of Scripture helpful.

Two focused articles at the end of each chapter, The Text in biblical Context and The Text in the Life of the Church, are unique features of the series.

Especially in the latter, believers church perspectives come through clearly. These include believers baptism, commitment to the Rule of Christ (Matthew 18:15-20) as central to church membership, belief in the power of love in all relationships, and a willingness to follow the way of the cross of Christ.

The series is based on the conviction that God still speaks to all who will listen, and that the Holy Spirit makes the Word a living and authoritative guide for all who want to know and do God's will.

These scholarly essays engage this question at multiple levels. Especially Girard's theories on sacrifice and imitation are critically examined in these significant contributions to Girardian scholarship which culminate in a response by Girard himself.

Addressed as well in Violence Renounced are kingship and servanthood, the relation between the Testaments on sacrifice and atonement, and such basic themes as the human primal nature, the shape of new creation in Jewish and Christian reality, and feminist perspectives on Girardian theory. Also seen in new light are standard beliefs and doctrines on atonement, who/what killed Jesus, and how peace is to be rightly achieved.

Copyright 2000.

Eby's project from the practice of old spiritual disciplines: Bible Study, meditation, prayer, contemplation, silence, writing. Using the Gospel of Mark for his own Markings, Eby explored the Gospel through the grid of his forty years teaching literature at the college level, reading and writing, listening to music, walking in the orchard and woods, living in Africa, heeding one wise woman, rearing children, stumbling towards God. Then, under the influence of a given text and personal memory, he sat down and wrote, yielding these personal musings on a spare but elegant Gospel.